Vjekoslav Luburic

Vjekoslav Luburic (6 March 1914-20 April 1969) was a commander of the Ustase of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.

Biography
Vjekoslav Luburic was born on 6 March 1914 in Humac, Ljubuski, Austria-Hungary along the border of present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina with Croatia. He joined the Ustase in 1931, a group dedicated to destroying Yugoslavia and establishing Greater Croatia. Luburic fled to Budapest in Hungary to avoid arrest in 1932, returning to Yugoslavia in 1941 to become a commander of the Independent State of Croatia. Luburic was given command of Ustase squads that were responsible for massacring Serbs within the Independent State's boundaries, and he fought against the Yugoslav Partisans and Chetniks during World War II. He announced the efficiency of the great Jasenovac concentration camp, and he was brutal during the war. After the war's end, Luburic led the Krizari paramilitary group against the communist government of Josip Broz Tito, and after its destruction, he led the Croatian National Resistance group. On 20 April 1969, Luburic was assassinated by Ilija Stanic, his own godson, in Carcaixent, Spain for allegedly abandoning Ante Pavelic's government. Stanic was allegely an UBDA member of the communist government.